National Costumers Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237147460
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7082187755
- Rating
- 41
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $94,008
- Expenses
- $94,851
- Assets
- $33,672
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JANINE CAUFIELD (VICE PRESIDENT)
- TERRY SINOPOLI (PRESIDENT)
- PAM MARKEL (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARION BRADLEY (DIRECTOR)
- JANINE CAUFIELD (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LOUELLA TORRENCE (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The national costumers association promotes the art and business of costuming
What it reported doing in 2025
Costumer magazine is mailed 4 times per year to 1000 costume industry professionals; articles pertain to the art, business and social aspects of costuming
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 13
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13.4%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 13.3%; rating input score 13
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.8% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 13.4% of revenue deployed · 13.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.